Convergence

Convergence, is combining two or more to make a phenomena. Converge is first introduced in the 1990s used by some companies work together to make better product and work efficient. Cell phone is a great example of convergence product, for example- Sony phone, runs on android software.
Microsoft and Apple were the only companies who were using converge in the same building. Apple was dying and Microsoft was its rival. Microsoft was known as the one of the strongest companies and was controlling everything and gets done whatever they want. The government step in to tell Microsoft that they have to make a different department for its products. Because of this, Microsoft invested  $150 million dollars, to keep Apple alive and Microsoft did not have to make another department.

What does a community and does tech provide

                  Technological community, it is a community in the virtual world, online community. This community is used in many different ways. We can communicate with others, share our thoughts, vacation pictures, find other friends and highlights with others things. We can do it just like real life.  There are many different communities like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, UW Canvas. All these is like a virtual community, we can message anyone at any time, block the people we don't like. 

                 Just like the in real life, ignore the people and don't talk to them. Facebook and Twitter are the biggest social networking websites with user all over the world. These company are worth billions and billions of dollars. People get very addicted to these sites and people are always on their phones. Today, people like to text more than talk on their phones. 

Presentation- Facebook by Mahumaad

                  Facebook was founded in 2004. Most popular social networking site and have overtaken all its competition. It has over 1 billion users across the globe. It got popular during 2009 and became one of the strongest companies right now. It connects people, share their thoughts, pictures and memories with no cost, just free. Now, we can even call with the messenger, without any phone number. 

                  In Brazil, three friends made Facegloria which is like the cleaner version of Facebook for the Christians or other religious use. Over 600 bad words have been blocked from it. You can even find your soul mate through Facebook but there are no guarantee about it. Facebook has some disadvantages like- too addictive, Have no life, being jealous and trying to show off too much.

                 Overall, it was an amazing and the funniest presentation. I really enjoyed listening to the Positive and Negative effects of Facebook. 

Startup.com movie

Startup.com is a documentary movie based on a true story during the late 1990s and early 2000s. This movie reminded me of 2008 recession where people thought they were balling (rich) and suddenly the economy crashed and people lost everything. This company named Govworks is a great example for the Dot.com to Dot.bomb to Dot and Pyramid Company. In 1998, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman get together with a faith of making online services where you can pay the parking tickets online and save time-money. They all quit their jobs and started working together. Day by day the company started growing, hiring more people.

The company is getting famous and getting a lot of attention from media. Tuzman also met up with President Bill Clinton. People started buying their shares, I would of too. He is having meetings with the President, obviously he is legit and going to make a lot of money. After getting popular, people got interested and bought the shares. Became the more than 60 million dollars before even doing anything, before the actual website was made.

They were living the celebrity life with the bling, they were making a lot of money and having a lot of fun- big cars, being on the media all the time. They get some competition from other companies who were doing the same thing. Tuzman lets their competitors to see their workplace and plans with just being overconfident and stupid. They paid a lot of money to the web-designers but the website did not achieve the expectations. The competitor’s website was better. It was interesting Turzman with two sides, he fired his friend Tom but on his face he acted like he didn’t have anything to do with it.

In 2000, the company went bankrupted total 0 and everything ended. 

Dotcom to Dotbomb to Dot

          This was the rapid era where many crazy things where happening all at the same time. This time was an early technology world run which became phenomena but failed after short period of time. This time changed the lives of millions of people from poor to rich to poor. To make more sense of it this era is divided into six time periods- An Innocent Beginning, Boom!, Insanity!!, Bust!@#%*!, The Crawl Back to Sanity, Bonus Stage: Uh-oh…
          Everything started in 1993, with a good start of the insanity. Day by Day it gets crazier with companies with everyone going online and tons of new companies starting and were worth millions of dollars with all the people investing in them. All the big companies were going online with their products. All the computer related people were getting the doubled their salaries with shares as bonuses. The stocks were sky rocking and ridiculous amount of money was getting involved.
          Bust 2001, a lot of companies went bankrupt because they were not capable of running at the first place. It was just big mistake for letting companies and making the stock overvalued by buying it. It took a long time get out of this huge mass virtual earthquake. In 2015, everyone is online and we learnt from our past mistakes well.

Erik Hanberg

Erik Hanberg was the guest speaker in our class and talked about his experience about the whole internet and new opportunities at amazon with his books. He is currently commissioner of Metro Parks Board of Tacoma with a history of Hartio theater. Steven Hawking said the biggest threat on us is the Artificial Intelligence. Erik is author of number of books around 10, he started in 2009 and some books are based on "The 4 hour work week" book.
                 "The privacy you have today is the most privacy you will ever have" -Andrew Fry and Erik Hanberg. Very strong statement and has a deep message that the privacy is going to decrease from day by day. He also talked about the business side of the books selling, how its much easier than earlier. The difference in money making of having your publisher and doing it yourself. Amazon takes the 30% of the whole for selling, packing from the whole amount.

Three Things Not To Buy Online

1. House- It was very important to check it out, the location, make sure it legit really a house and no scam. It worth alot of money that the if its fake, it will not be easy to heal from it. I saw this news few weeks ago, http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/37479849-story it could get worse when you buy online.
2. Car- Because looking online doesn't give full satisfaction about if it has any damage, good engine and looking the papers.
3. Groceries- can buy few but still have to go big Grocery to buy them.

Scavenger Hunt Activity

This activity was about searching internet to find the answers of the questions. Questions were based on the information that we can online but needs some searching and digging. It was interesting to find the amount and depth of information we can find in the matter of milliseconds. Some questions were easy to find but for some questions some work was needed. It was a fun activity and somethings different, new and unexpected. 

In my group we divided the questions paper into 3. It was faster and we help each other when the person doing it couldn't find the answer. Middle sister's married name was one of the hardest question, I answered Nancy but I heard she is the youngest sister. So I don't know. We turned in our paper the second, we got the best surprise ever $5 Starbucks gift card, which was more shocking than surprising. 

Epic 2015

This video was made in 2005 so it had the history of internet ere and had some predictions about what will happen up to 2015. The video starts with the history of the technology with Amazon and google stepping up there game. It was pretty cool to see how all the massive companies worth billions of dollars and very strong are very young less than 20 years old. They were just an idea and became history. Some companies were big earlier day but after sometime went downhill and just became stories.

Facts-
1990 World Wide Web by Tim Berners Lee.
1994 Amazon was founded, online store.
1995 Google was founded, today's biggest search engine and strongest company.
1999 Blogger was founded.
2001 Friendster, the first social networking website.

Incorrect predictions-
Google and Amazon combines for Googlezon and take over everything.
Googlerid and Microsoft.
New York Times sues Googlezon.

First HTML page

My first HTML page, it was a very interesting experience starting from scratch. It was very simple straight forward on the point with the help of the document "How to Create a Simple Web Page With HTML". I never thought it will be that simple, start with <__> and end with </___>, - title, body etc. I felt satisfied, when it was complete. It was something I haven't done before. I made a Seattle Seahawks, Marshawn Lynch html page with a green background and his picture.

Here is the link: file:///C:/Users/Harmandeep/OneDrive/Documents/Seattle.html

Electronic mail vs Postal mail

Electronic mail and postal mail have many similarities and differences.  Both help make our lives easier and less hectic, both are important communication medium for us. Mail is the ancestor/father of email, being used from centuries, it was the typical old style postal in which people write and send messages to each other in physical envelope and takes a long time/ long process. On the other hand, the email is the new technology Electronic mail, it is much faster and is send through computers or phones, received in matter of seconds. It is more popular nowadays, quicker, inexpensive, less work.

                Similarities- Both have mail in the name- Electronic mail and postal mail. Reliable and outstanding communication medium. Go through almost the same route post office to the mail box of the receiver. Both get the junk mail- advertisements from grocery and shopping centers.  Photos, documents, information can be sent. Mail is sent inside an envelope, Email the send button is an animation of an envelope. Both can be send to any part of the world, if they know the email or address of the receiving person.

                Differences- The speed- Mail is much slower, can take around 3-5 days depends on the distance but Email is much faster, can be received in seconds. Material- Mail is physical mail can receive books, laptops, games almost anything. But email is not electronic not physical. Sender has to post the letter in postal office. Email can be send from anywhere, as long as you have electronic device to email and the access internet. Mail can be less precise on the name or address and still can be received by the right person, but email has to be exact on the point right about the email address. Email is being used by all the educational departments to communicate between the students, teachers and faculties. Email is the future of the mail.